Saturday Mad Science: Finally, A Day Off!

It's Saturday, and for once, I actually have the day off.  Thank God!  I am exhausted.  I don't want to get too much into this, but I will say that I'll be happy when the crisis ends, and peace is restored.  I mean, the crisis has been profitable for me personally, but at this point, I miss my bike and my regular schedule.

Eh.  What are you gonna do?

So.  Right now it's a big time of the year for Danno's Lair.  Not only is it the middle of the Tour de France, it's also the San Diego Comic Con.

I've been enjoying the Tour.  Granted, it's not all that easy to follow it on my phone from various spots in and around where I'm working, but still... so far, so good.  The battle for the Yellow Jersey is sort of subdued in that British time trial specialist Bradley Wiggins has a commanding lead on all of his rivals, but some of the other stories of the Tour have been riveting.  In particular, I've been rooting for BMC's Teejay Van Garderen as he battles for the White Jersey, given to the Tour's best "young" rider.  Teejay has been considered American cycling's Next Big Thing for a few years.  Well, this year Teejay is standing strong in the top ten overall at the Tour, and he looks very much like a potential Tour winner in future years.  Here's hoping.

Yesterday's stage started in the mountains but ended in the flats, so the video below is a summary of Stage 11, the last true mountain stage of the week.

Over at SDCC, lots of folks have announced lots of stuff.  A few things that I care about include IDW's announcement of a new My Little Pony comic--because both of my girls love My Little Pony--along with Marvel's announcement of both a Red She-Hulk comic and a new Doctor Strange comic.  Both Strange and Red She Hulk are members of the new Defenders squad and intriguing enough characters that I may well give each of these series a try.  

My Little Pony promo art.  You know you want it!

I've noticed about myself that I still really like all the Marvel characters and lots of Marvel's stories, but their big crossover-type events annoy me.  Hence, I like Amazing Spider-Man, and I like the Defenders, but AvX and all the rest of that Avengers crap is really pissing me off.  If the Dr. Strange and Red She-Hulk books have serialized storytelling, then I may well add them to my Pull List.